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OK, that one reminds me of some others I have heard. Try these: WHH With apologies to my British and German friends: Then there was the one about the British Royal Army Colonel interviewed by a reporter back in colonial days. Reporter: "Are you Colonel Sir Arthur Higgsley -Chatham? The famous adventurer ?" SAHC: "Right, old boy. That is me." Reporter: Tell about your most significant adventure." SAHC: "My greatest adventure, greatest adventure …oh yes now I have it!" He then recounts being surrounded by "the hotentots." "There was much danger. It could have been a disaster. The odds were 500 to 5." Reporter:" So how did you survive, Sir Arthur? " asked the reporter? SAHC: "Well, harumph, …we simply took care of those five blighters. " Then there was the WW1 veteran pilot who also flew combat in WW2. After a particularly harrowing mission supporting bombers over Germany, he was holding forth as pilots do in the bar after the mission: "There we were, flying along at 20,000 feet when we were jumped by a half dozen fockers coming out of the sun." But, objected the young Red Cross nurse who was the object of the story effort, Focker hasn't built a fighter in 15 years. "Young lady" the pilot replied, "Those fockers were flying Me 109's."